Barnaby Low
Barnaby is a consultant in our Investment team. He advises trustees and employers on all aspects of defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) investment.
His experience spans a range of investment areas including strategy reviews, fund manager research, funding level monitoring, de-risking frameworks and buy-in transactions.
Barnaby works closely with trustees and sponsors to understand their aims, beliefs and constraints in order to help them develop solutions that work for them.
Significant experience:
- worked with trustees and sponsors on a range of investment portfolios from £5 million to over £3 billion
- helped clients to stabilise and close their funding gaps using liability-driven investment strategies and diversified return-seeking portfolios
- advised a number of clients on constructing and implementing de-risking frameworks, enabling them to lock in funding level gains when affordable to do so
- helped a number of clients to design investment strategies targeting buy-in transactions and then implement the trades, working closely with the scheme actuaries and buy-in providers
Other expertise:
Barnaby has significant experience of fund manager research, including alternative asset classes such as hedge funds, multi-asset funds and illiquid credit.
Career
Barnaby graduated from the University of Bristol in 2007 with a first-class degree in Mathematics.
He began his investment consulting career in 2009 and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 2014, having obtained a masters degree in Actuarial Finance from Imperial College Business School.
Barnaby joined Barnett Waddingham as an investment consultant in January 2017.
Memberships
• Association of Consulting Actuaries
Interests
Outside of the office Barnaby enjoys reading, travelling and playing guitar.